Definitions for caliber

caliber cal·i·ber

Spelling: [kal-uh-ber]
IPA: /ˈkæl ə bər/

Caliber is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 243 anagrams from letters in caliber (abceilr).

Definitions for caliber

noun

  1. the diameter of something of circular section, especially that of the inside of a tube:
  2. Ordnance. the diameter of the bore of a gun taken as a unit of measurement.
  3. degree of capacity or competence; ability:
  4. degree of merit or excellence; quality:

Origin of caliber

1560-70; variant of calibre Middle French ≪ Arabic qālib mold, last Greek kālápous shoe last, equivalent to kāla- combining form of kâlon wood + poús foot (see -pod)

Examples for caliber

The caliber at which Sam and the entire crew preformed dubbed them professionals not students.

Still, the school has gotten more difficult to get into and the caliber of student attending has improved, as a result.

It was later reported that the weapon was a BB gun that appeared to be a .45-caliber pistol.

Had he dreamed of the hammer blow of that forty-five caliber bullet?

When the body of Johnson was exhumed, the medical examiner was acutely chagrined when six .22 caliber rounds were removed from it.

He swaggered into the school cafeteria that day with a .22 caliber handgun and started shooting randomly.

What business could a detective of his caliber have to do with Bertrand Rockamore?

Hundreds and thousands of people have minds of this caliber.

Sufficiently expert to care little for an enemy of his caliber.

Guns of all caliber belched their deadly missiles at the charging French.

Word Value for caliber
Scrable

11

Words with friends

14

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